I can’t imagine a lot of 40-year-olds are still planning to have kids so this number seems a little suspect to me.
Thanks for this, so I redid the math using the two youngest categories (up to 34 years old) and the % goes from 21% to 26% 🤷♂️
It only surveyed people who don’t have children. Says on the left ‘Do not have children, n = 1300’. This result says nothing about the general intention to have children as those with children in each age group are excluded. Naturally, as people age, the number who still think they’re going to have children goes down.
The light blue section doesn’t count towards either yes or no, right? Because it’s the “I don’t know” answer.
I was sitting here wondering how they came to 21% at all without only looking at the oldest category, and even then it’s only a fourth that would not get children.
For sure, good call out, I think they just mean only 21% of people feel sure about wanting kids, and if we remove the age bias it goes to 26%. Honestly it would be more interesting to compare the categories to answers from 10, 20 or 30 years ago to have a better benchmark for how we could interperet this.
Yeah, I got distracted by the headline and didn’t notice the bottom text that says it exactly that way.
I suppose I’m not alone, because I doubt it would’ve been interesting enough to make my feed without the confusion.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t basic biology say that it gets more dangerous for people to have kids the older they are? Let alone the virility of men over 40.
It’s a risk to have a child at any age but the risk does raise as you get older scare tactics says it doubles and such after 40 but that doubling is like a 0.5% chance changing to a 1% chance. Adam ruins everything did a piece on this that explains it pretty well.
Yes, it starts being a risk birth at 35.
But, the answers do specify “have or raise” so adoption is also included.
People PLAN to have kids? ;)
the 35-44 year olds skew the data quite heavily. In that age it’s dangerous for women to have kids so over 50% of them saying no makes sense.
Yep. We had one kid when my wife was in hear early 30s. It was not a fun pregnancy for her in any way (morning sickness the entire time, for instance) and, on top of that, we decided against any more once she turned 35 since we didn’t want to increase any risk factors.
Lots of people are getting married later in life. If you get married at 35 and you don’t want to take the risk of having a kid, I don’t blame you.
Maybe if they created an environment conducive to having kids, more people would have them. Failing and underfunded public education, increasingly expensive cost of childcare, lower standard of living. I could go on about climate and geopolitical uncertainty but you get the idea.
Once you’re 50, you got everything together, the house, the car, the job… That’s when you should start dating! There’s a bunch of 45 year old hotties out there with big tiddies! Just gotta know where to look…like like forward, to the left, and to the right. Usually you don’t need to look up to find a hottie.
Anyway, the thing about 45 year old hotties is that they don’t live with their parents anymore. Usually their parents already died. It’s tragic, So know, but believe me! It’s for the best! You don’t wanna end up getting chased around the neighborhood by a 90 year old with a shotgun. At best the guy hurts himself and you’re still the guilty party. Nah. Find yourself a 45 year old orphan.
And get a job you laisy sonobabich! How are you gonna provide to your girlfriend if you got no job! 😜
Fortunately for the species, over 95% plan on having unprotected sex
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